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ARPA-E announces $11M for innovations in energy-water processing and agricultural sensing technologies; fourth, fifth OPEN+ cohorts

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The US Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced $11 million in funding for 7 projects in the fourth and fifth cohorts of the agency’s OPEN+ program: Energy-Water Technologies and Sensors for Bioenergy and Agriculture. Energy-Water Technologies cohort.

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DOE Awards Up to $6.9M to Nine Projects for Shale Gas and Coalbed Methane Production

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NETL’s goals for these projects are to improve management of water resources, water usage, and water disposal, and to support science that will aid the regulatory and permitting processes required for shale gas development. Ground Water Protection Research Foundation, Oklahoma City, Okla. million (DOE share: $6.9

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Alkaline surfactant polymer flooding shown to improve recovery in very mature oilfield by more than 300%

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Polymer is added to protect the chemical slug from early dissipation by the driving water phase. The principal advantage of this process is its low cost. However, the process is adversely affected by contact with water or rock that contains high salinity and hardness. water production. water production.

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DOE awarding $35.4M to 13 projects to advance deepwater drilling technologies

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The Board of Regents of the University of Oklahoma — Intelligent Casing-Intelligent Formation Telemetry System. Colorado School of Mines — Hydrate Modeling & Flow Loop Experiments for Water Continuous & Dispersed Systems. Deepflex — Qualification of Flexible Fiber Reinforced Pipe for 10,000-Foot Water Depths. Doris, Inc. —

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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Nu:Ionic (Tulsa, Oklahoma). Development of a Low-cost and Hardware Friendly Instantaneous Waveform Measurement Technology for Distribution System, $1,000,000. Dry Surface Technologies (Guthrie, Oklahoma). Mesofluidic Inline Separation for Produced Water Treatment, $246,979. Alkaline Water Electrolysis, $100,000.

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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Water (1 project). Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. Low Cost, High Energy and Power Density, Nanotube-Enhanced Ultracapacitors.

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DOE awards $25M to improve natural gas operations

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Low-Cost Retrofit Kit for Integral Reciprocating Compressors to Reduce Emissions and Enhance Efficiency. The University of Oklahoma (Norman, OK) plans to develop, build, and validate a low-cost, field-installable, remotely-controlled natural gas compressor retrofit kit.

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